Minutes of the 11th July 2013 Teleconference Austin-618 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 12th July 2013 Attendees Don Cragun, PASC OR Geoff Clare, The Open Group Nick Stoughton, USENIX, ISO/IEC OR Joerg Schilling, Fraunhofer Society Mark Brown, IBM, TOG OR Andrew Josey, The Open Group David Clissold, IBM Eric Blake, Red Hat Apologies Jim Pugsley, Oracle Richard Hansen, BBN * General news Andrew noted that he has submitted a number of names for awards to IEEE and The Open Group. This is in recognition for development of the 2013 standard. * Outstanding actions +Bug 0000561: NUL-termination of sun_path in Unix sockets OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=561 Eric has an action to update the proposal. +Bug 0000573: Please add '+' to the portable filename character set OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=573 Joerg has an action to prepare a proposed change. +Bug 0000592: consistent use of struct timespec OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=592 (**updated**) Jim had provided additional information in bugnote 1627. This was discussed and Jim took an action to provide further information. +Bug 0000598: OH shading and new interfaces OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=598 Eric has an action to propose a new solution with self-contained headers. +Bug 0000517: EBNF support OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=517 Action on Joerg to look at this. +Bug 0000633: SIGEV_THREAD delivery renders many signal interfaces unsafe OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=633 We noted that feedback has settled down on the mailing list, and will discuss next session. +Bug 0000657: Conditions under which fmemopen() write a NUL to the buffer are insufficiently specified OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=657 Eric has an action to propose wording to clarify the behavior for fmemopen(), and also to contact the glibc developers to get their feedback. +Bug 0000658: Undefined/unspecified behavior clauses in description of open have race conditions OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=658 It was noted that there is some overlap with changes in TC1. Eric took an action to update the proposal to resolve the overlaps appropriately. Bug 0000615: pthread_setcancelstate should be async-signal-safe OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=615 We now have reports on AIX and Apple. Jim to report back on whether pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on Solaris. Andrew to ask HP whether pthread_cancelstate() is async-signal-safe on HP-UX. Bug 622 left open pending resolution of 615. http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=622 Bug 0000672: Necessary step(s) to synchronize filename operations on disk OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=672 Geoff has a new proposed resolution in note 1618. Decided to solicit input from FS developers. Eric to go to Linux, Mark to AIX and Jim to Solaris. * Current Business Bug 0000663: Specification of str[n]casecmp is ambiguous reopened http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=663 This item was raised as there has been further discussion on the reflector. It was noted that the action on Mark, is now being passed to David Clissold to follow with the IBM developers about EBCDIC. Bug 0000719: hsearch should allow user to remove individual entries Rejected http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=719 This is outside the scope of maintenance of the Austin Group specifications. Please submit a proposal to one of the three sponsor organizations following the guidelines in SD6. http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_sd6.txt Also see bug note 1671 Bug 0000718: sh -i -c '...' should not read its input from terminal Accept as Marked http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=718 This item is tagged for TC2-2008 Make the changes suggested in the Desired Action. Additionally, at line 106766 [sh INPUT FILES], change: If the input file is empty or consists solely of blank lines or comments, or both, sh shall exit with a zero exit status. to: If the input file consists solely of zero or more blank lines and comments, sh shall exit with a zero exit status. Bug 0000717: meaning of "the shell shall exit" in a subshell environment OPEN http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=717 There has been some feedback on the bug, so Geoff took an action to update his proposal - which he completed after the meeting - see bugnote 1673. Bug 0000712: typographic error: .I in short description Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=712 This is a html translation error - Andrew has fixed the problem after the meeting. Bug 0000715: Typo in description of "set -e" Accepted http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=715 This is a html translation error - Andrew has fixed the problem after the meeting. A number of identical translations were also fixed at the same time and an update made to the translator program. Next Steps ---------- The next call is on July 18 2013 (a Thursday) Calls are anchored on US time. This call will be for the regular 90 minutes. There will be no call on July 25 2013. http://austingroupbugs.net We will use the webex bridge. See the calendar for the list of dialup numbers. An IRC channel will be available for the meeting irc://irc.freenode.net/austingroupbugs